Zero Gravity

Laika & The Cosmonauts

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 19, 1996)
• Original Release Date: March 19, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Upstart
• ASIN: B000003NOR
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #198,776 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. C'mon Do the Laika

2. Fugitive

3. Oahu Luau

4. Night in Tunisia

5. Surf-Ro-Mania

6. Fadeaway

7. Beat 88'

8. Salt Mine Twist

9. Zero Gravity Stomp

10. 1'45

11. Surfs You Right

12. Fear

13. Baja

14. Point of No Return

15. Zunami

16. And Suddenly You Run

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

One of the better outfits to emerge during the surf revival of the early '90s, the Helsinki, Finland-based Cosmonauts combine a reverence for surf's pioneers with a wacky sense of humor. Bizarre arrangements suggest Ennio Morricone, John Barry, Don Ho, and Tex-Mex as readily as Dick Dale or the Ventures. Throughout Zero Gravity, guitarist Mikko Lankinen's true-blue Fender guitar swells, spooky spy chords, and tremolo bursts add both irony and authenticity to tracks such as the lai-cool "Oahu Luau" and the Bond-approved send-up of "A Night in Tunisia." Though more traditional and possibly better schooled in surf's rudiments than iconoclasts Man or Astro-Man? and the Mermen, the Cosmonauts make the surf aesthetic seem terribly contemporary and as much fun as you'd like to believe it was--y'know, back in the day, dude. --James Rotondi

Customer Reviews

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Laika & the Cosmonauts - Zero Gravity, January 18, 2000

By	david esposito (Shrewsbury, MA.) - See all my reviews

Surf Music purists unite! These guys from Helsinki know their surf. (and so does Upstart records) 16 tracks of intensity and great album art. If you can catch this band live - don't miss em.